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Representative Football - 2009. City vs Country and Australia vs New ZealandThis year's representative fixtures got under way last night when the NSWRL and the CRL hosted the annual City vs Country match, this year played at Wade Park in Orange, NSW. This is the classic Sydney or the bush contest that is used to select players for the NSW side in the up-coming State of Origin series.   Despite being a Country home game, City came out eventual winners: 40 - 18. Later in the evening Australia played New Zealand in what used to be known as the ANZAC Test - deferred this year for unknown reasons and probably as part of the NRL's agenda to screw tradition and pay more attention to demands by the media who pay millions in television broadcasting rights each year.   The Test Match was played at Suncorp Stadium (Lang Park) in Brisbane, QLD and Australia came out on top: 38 - 10. The next representative fixture will be the first State of Origin game, NSW vs QLD, on neutral turf at Etihad Stadium (Docklands Stadium to those who, like me, find it hard keeping track of venues whose naming rights change every second week) in Melbourne, VIC on the 9th June. Written at 05:54 on 9 May 2009 by Lord Watchdog. Comments
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